Sabaoke

Tonight was the first weekend after our 2nd block exams and much like the first exam weekend, it was quite an adventure. While 1st block was quite a bit more depressing, my fellow classmates and I still took advantage of tonight and spent it as a typical Caribbean vacation night. Fifteen of us took a terrifying cab ride up and around the island up to a stunning little hotel located further north of campus, and fuck was it a roller coaster getting there. Right before we actually arrived to the hotel we had to drive up an unbelievably steep hill; it was literally like a 35 degree incline. We had to get some acceleration into a rolling start because the cab was too overweight (the shit-mobile that it was didn't help at all either). Anyways, we arrive at the restaurant/hotel to be greeted by the owners with a beautiful balcony overlooking the eastern side of the island, a nice pool in the center, and the stars calmly relaxing up above. A friend and I split some quality Merlot as neither of us has had any wine in nearly three months and fuck was it satisfying. With a small portioned filet mignon and a tiramisu for dessert, it was a dinner none of us would get to enjoy again for at least another month. Dinner ending only at 10pm, we still had the entire night in front of us; we all ended up heading down to Scout's Place, a decently sized bar with sabaoke (the island's version of karaoke), and met up with a handful of other students and started a long road into the night. The locals along with plenty of first and third semesters took hand of the mics as they sang some tunes for the rest of the bar. Shockingly I stood up there with three other buddies as we shouted out the lyrics to Californication. Three hours and countless drinks later, we headed over to another bar called Guido's, and yeah it's pretty ghetto in there. Loud music, a dance floor, and some bright blinking lights were all we needed to finish the night off.

There most likely won't be another night like this at least until the end of the month, which is quite upsetting. We all get along very well together as we can all relate to each other's suffering and it's rare that everyone gets to spend an alcoholic filled journey with one another. Like high school and college, after these two years of basic sciences, we all head our separate ways, and so what time we do spend together is treasured quite a bit, although not everyone may realize it (also considering that 114% of the students are Canadian, they're pretty far away from me and each other). With Halloween approaching, I'm interested in seeing what creative costumes some of us are able to conjure up; should be an amusing month.

October

It honestly feels like I've been here for a year now, that's how slow time passes here, but unfortunately it's only been a month. It's a depressing thought of having to spend October way down here int he middle of fucking nowhere; fall is my favorite season of year and it also happens to be the month of my birthday, yet I don't get to experience or enjoy the benefits. Seeing your breath for the first time with the leaves gradually shifting colors just makes you feel like a necessary change is finally approaching. Simply knowing that you'll see the same scenery over and over again for the two year stay just isn't very satisfying. I've always been someone who hated being exposed to the same shit time and time again, which makes this whole experience all the more interesting - how the fuck did I end up here? I hope a crunchy brown leaf finds its way here somehow.

I briefly read through my previous posts and realized that not once have I had something good to say about this island, other than the view, and thought I'd enlighten you guys with the wonderful parts of this little volcano.

1. The air conditioner has a remote.

That's it.

Furthermore, today was the day of our 2nd block exams, After the exam, all the tension that's been built up for the past three weeks have been lifted. Too bad that of the last four weeks of sunny weather, today was the one day it rained all day. Apparently another hurricane formed on top of us, and while we completely avoided the storm, we still got hit by the rain (and fuck was it a lot of rain). With the elevation of our dorm being so high, we're pretty much covered by clouds when it rains here; it got to the point where we couldn't even see down the street from the balcony of our dorm.

On a completely random note, I fucking hate the fact that obnoxious idiots with  absolutely no education or any ability to speak proper English work the dorms. I understand that idiots manage to inhabit more places than they should, but for once I wish they could've hired English affluent people to work in a dorm full of medical students; this is an English speaking school/island after all. I accidentally left a $40 pen in my scrubs when I was throwing them in the laundry, so I later go down to ask the people working the laundry machines if they had seen a pen, they did and they set it aside somewhere, but they don't remember where and didn't want to bother looking for it (at least that's what I think they said, bitches). Obviously I shouldn't have been so careless with the pen, but for anyone who keeps track of things I lose, I've lost one thing in the last six years, which was that SAME fucking pen I re-bought; shits cursed.